Washington law would have large state ports hire draymen

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Washington state’s legislature has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday morning on a proposed law that would require large ports in the state to “employ drayage truck operators to load, unload, and transport containerized cargo, other than agricultural products, at or through the port." Under the proposed law, the port district may enter into contracts with cargo owners and shippers to provide drayage services, and "all loading, unloading, and transporting of containerized cargo, other than agricultural products, in a port district must take place under such contracts.” A digest of the bill, H.B. 1719 , said the law would apply to ports in counties with populations of more than 1 million. ( According to the Municip...